British Press: That Italian mini-skirt ban in full

It was like A-Level results day had come twice this year. The banning of mini-skirts in a small Italian town in order to improve moral decency (and according to a local dinosaur Priest, to help stop women being sexually attacked) gave the honourable British media a chance to remind us all of what we gain from our freedoms. By plastering women in miniskirts all over their pages. Here are some examples from the Mail, the BBC, the Express, the Telegraph and the Guardian.

Top marks have to go to the Telegraph for the fruitiest and most provocative picture...

Alexander's non-gaffe

Most of the press this morning has run with a 'gaffe' by Danny Alexander, in which he allowed himself to be photographed reading a document which said that the government expected 490,000 jobs to be lost. Fraser Nelson has just posted an excellent account of the flawed journalism behind these headlines, pointing out that the figure was widely published earlier in the year in a report which actually concluded 1.5 million jobs would be created as a consequence of the cuts. What's more, those figures are actually right next to each other in the Alexander 'gaffe' picture. Selective headline-chasing journalism at its best...